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Ansar al-Islam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ansar al-Islam is alleged to be connected to the al-Qaeda, and provided an entry point for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other Afghan veterans to enter Iraq. Krekar became the leader of the merged Ansar al-Islam, which opposed an agreement made betwen IMK and the dominant Kurdish group in the area, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Ansar al-islam is thought not to be active in Iraq at present, but has an extensive network in Europe organizing finace and support for armed attacks within Iraq. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ansar_al-Islam   (646 words)

Ansar al-Islam Ansar al-Islam was established in December 2001 after a merger between Jund al-Islam, led by Abu Abdallah al-Shafi'i and the Islamic Movement splinter group led by Mullah Krekar. Ansar al-Islam recent activities include: razing of beauty salons, burning a schools for girls, and murdered women in the streets for refusing to wear the burqa. Ansar al-Islam is in a state of war with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). www.iraqinews.com /org_ansar_al-islam.shtml   (271 words)

Ansar al-Islam Ansar's bank accounts and recruitment offices are almost certainly overflowing in the wake of garish torture stories emerging from the Abu Ghraib prison, where Iraqi prisoners were subjected to extreme physical and sexual abuse from U.S. soldiers. Ansar's enemies — and its terrorist activities — were directed first against its fellow Kurds, who were not sufficiently Islamic for Ansar's taste, and then against the Saddam regime. One month after the third attack plan was aborted, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told the United Nations that Ansar's presence in Iraq was evidence that Saddam was working fist in glove with al Qaeda, and thus the United States was morally justified in invading Iraq... www.rotten.com /library/history/terrorist-organizations/ansar_al-islam   (1242 words)

Ansar Al-Islam: Iraq's Al-Qaeda Connection That spring, Ansar attempted to murder Barham Salih, a PUK leader; five bodyguards and two attackers were killed in the ensuing gunfight. Kurdish explosives experts also claim that TNT seized from Ansar was produced by the Iraqi military, and that arms are sent to the group from areas controlled by Saddam. Ansar's goal is to disrupt civil society and create a Taliban-like regime in northern Iraq. www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=5571   (1070 words)

Jaish Ansar al-Sunna Jaish Ansar al-Sunna appears to be a successor organization to Ansar al-Islam or a subset of it. Ansar Al Sunna is a faction of Ansar Al Islam and reportedly has close ties with the Al-Zarqawi network. The Ansar al-Sunna, or Army of the Protectors of the Sunna [which refers to the collective teachings of the Prophet Muhammad], is a is a Sunni extremist group said to be linked with al-Qaida. www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/ansar-al-sunna.htm   (1142 words)

Ansar al-Islam Ansar al-Islam has an unusually conservative understanding of Islam and Sharia, not far from the one employed by the Taliban of Afghanistan. Ansar al-Islam is an organization stamped illegal in all countries of operation. The alleged leader of Ansar al-Islam, Mullah Krekar, who has refugee status in Norway has denied to Norwegian authorities and media that he still is the leader of Ansar al-Islam. lexicorient.com /e.o/ansar_al-islam.htm   (625 words)

Ansar Al-Islam Prisoner Shows Techniques Another prisoner who lived with Ansar, Haidar al-Shemari, said would-be suicide bombers were often single young men with religious zeal: they grew their beards, shunned worldly pleasures and enforced strict interpretations of Islam on their families. But Qader never heard back from the leadership about his suicide mission and on the eve of the U.S.-led war on Iraq, a barrage of U.S. missiles and a sweep by Kurdish soldiers killed and drove out Ansar al-Islam fighters. The story of Qader and other prisoners in the custody of Kurdish security in Sulaimaniyah provides a glimpse of the shadowy Ansar al-Islam, which Kurdish officials suspect is behind some attacks against U.S. forces and their allies in Iraq. www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=4776   (1070 words)

Ansar al Islam (Supporters of Islam) Ansar al Islam (Supporters of Islam) was formed in December 2001. Ansar al Islam, which operates in northeastern Iraq, has close links to and support from al-Qaida. The group changed its name to Ansar al-Islam in December 2001. www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/ansar_al_islam.htm   (589 words)

BBC NEWS World Middle East Mullah denies Iraq al-Qaeda link Ansar al-Islam is a small, but radical, Islamic organisation which operates from a string of villages it controls in Kurdish-administered northern Iraq, close to the Iranian border. Ansar al-Islam is a violent group which has denounced the secular nature of Iraqi Kurdish society. But it is American suggestions that Ansar could represent the missing link between Baghdad and al-Qaeda which have created the most interest. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/2713749.stm   (457 words)

Suicide Carbombing Blamed on Ansar al-Islam Ansar al-Islam, a Sunni militant group allied with al-Qaida is now firmly established in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq—a region outside the direct control of Saddam Hussein. Ansar al-Islam became front-page news last August, when reports surfaced that the group was experimenting with poison gas and toxins. Thus, Ansar al-Islam is able to burn the candle at both ends, taking money and resources from the secular dictator Saddam in exchange for help against the Kurds of northern Iraq, while at the same time giving safe-haven to al-Qaida fighter in furtherance of the global Islamic Jihad. www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=474   (1348 words)

Telegraph News Profile: Ansar al-Islam Ansar al-Islam was able to develop relatively unhindered and beyond Saddam Hussein's control thanks to Western-enforced no-fly zones in the north of the country during the oil for sanctions programme in the 1990s. Ansar al-Islam is an Iraqi militant group founded by a Kurdish refugee who now lives in Scandinavia. But it is the group's suspected offshoot, the Ansar al-Sunnah Army, which has been most active against the Coalition. telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/campaigns/iraq/uansar.xml   (340 words)

Ansar al-Islam takes on the USA - Jane's International Security News There is mounting evidence that Ansar al-Islam has links with Al-Qaeda and the USA believes it has been behind many of the suicide attacks against their troops in Iraq and probably the devastating twin suicide bombings in Iraqi Kurdistan on 2 February 2004 that killed more than 100 people. Ansar al-Islam was established after 11 September 2001 in an enclave in northeastern Iraq, near the porous border with Iran - an area outside of Saddam Hussein's control. Some Ansar al-Islam leaders, such as Abu Abdullah al-Shafei, Ayoub Afghani and Abu Wa'el, were seen in the Iranian border city of Sanandaj in June and July, regrouping their fighters and recruiting new men. www.janes.com /security/international_security/news/jtsm/jtsm040308_1_n.shtml   (595 words)

Analyzing Ansar Al-Islam Ansar al-Islam is often touted as the Kurdish constituency of al-Qaeda. The chief factors behind the rise of Ansar al-Islam and Taliban-style supremacist Sunni Islam in Iraqi Kurdistan are the local political and economic dynamics of that region of Iraq. The founder and leader of Ansar al-Islam is Abdullah al-Shafi’i, an Iraqi Kurd from a village near Irbil. www.jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2368051   (1883 words)

Ansar al-Islam in Iraqi Kurdistan (Human Rights Watch Backgrounder, ) Ansar al-Islam fi Kurdistan (Supporters of Islam in Kurdistan) is one of a number of Sunni Islamist groups based in the Kurdish-controlled northern provinces of Iraq. A statement issued by Ansar al-Islam's Shura Council on April 3 denied any involvement in the incident, but PUK officials later released the names of three of the suspects it had apprehended and said there was evidence linking them to Ansar al-Islam. Ansar al-Islam came together as a group in September 2001, initially under the name of Jund al-Islam (Soldiers of Islam), but its constituent factions have existed for several years. www.hrw.org /backgrounder/mena/ansarbk020503.htm   (3087 words)

Asia Times Ansar al-Islam is a small isolated group with a few hundred fighters based in a number of villages in northern Iraq in an area close to PUK territory. The Iranian government has repeatedly denied any link with the Ansar al-Islam over the past few months, during which time the American government has accused the group of cooperating with al-Qaeda in its attempts to link Iraq to terrorist activities. Iran's denial to an Iraqi Kurdish group with a Taliban-style extremist Islam ideology indicated its efforts to prevent the expansion to Iran of the American war on Iraq by denying the Americans a possible excuse to attack Iran for helping a "terrorist" group. www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EC28Ak04.html   (1079 words)

Ansar al-Islam: Back in Iraq - Middle East Quarterly - Winter 2004 Ansar al-Islam is not only back in Iraq; the group also appears to have gone global—at least, to some extent. Ansar al-Islam claimed responsibility for the February 8 assassination of Kurdish minister Shawkat Hajji Mushir, a founding member of the PUK. At least 259 Ansar al-Islam fighters were killed in the fighting. www.meforum.org /article/579   (4235 words)

TERRORISM: ANSAR AL-ISLAM FOUNDER FACES EXTRADICTION TO IRAQ Ansar al-Islam is characterised by its aversion to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), party of the new Iraqi president, the Kurd Jalal Talabani. Subsequently renamed Ansar al-Islam (the faithful of Islam), its bases are in and around the villages of Biyara and Tawela, which lie northeast of the town of Halabja in the Hawraman region of of Suleymaniya. Ansar al-Islam claimed to have killed a further 103 PUK fighters and wounded 117 in December 2002. www.adnki.com /index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.153016312&par=0   (804 words)

Ansar al-Islam Leader Denies Helping al-Qaeda In Iraq Holed up in the remote mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan on the border with Iran, Ansar al-Islam, or "Supporters of Islam," is an extremist alliance of Muslim guerrillas including some who, according to reports, fought in Afghanistan with links to al-Qaeda. Powell alleged that the Iraqi regime had employed an agent from the Ansar al-Islam organisation, which controls an enclave in Iraqi Kurdistan, who then offered shelter to al-Qaeda in the region. (AFP) - The suspected leader of the Iraqi Kurdish Islamic extremist group Ansar al-Islam rejected charges from US Secretary of State Colin Powell that the organisation offered shelter in Iraq to al-Qaeda members in 2000. www.rense.com /general34/denial.htm   (347 words)

PWHCE Middle East Project: Mullah Krekar Profile He has stated that he ceased to be Ansar al-Islam's leader in May 2002 (amongst other dates) but he did not protest when introduced as Ansar al-Islam's leader during an al-Jazeera interview. Ansar al-Islam has also claimed responsibility for attacks outside Iraq, such as the attack on the HSBC office block in Turkey. Human Rights Watch: Ansar al-Islam in Iraqi Kurdistan Human Rights Watch's backgrounder on human rights abuses carried out by Ansar al-Islam, based on the group's research and visits to Ansar-controlled areas. www.pwhce.org /krekar.html   (2373 words)

MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base Ansar was created in December 2001 from the merger of Jund al-Islam (Soldiers of Islam) and an unnamed group led by Mullah Krekar. Ansar al Islam's founding philosophy called for the establishment of a Kurdish theocracy under sharia, or strict Islamic law. Ansar al-Islam attacked Government target (Feb. 8, 2003, Iraq) www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=3501   (506 words)

Ansar al-Islam (Ansar al-Islam was designated on 20 February 2003, under E.O. The UNSCR 1267 Committee designated Ansar al-Islam pursuant to UNSCRs 1267, 1390, and 1455 on 27 February 2003.) Designation of Ansar al-Islam as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, Federal Register, March 22, 2004 The group has primarily fought against one of the two main Kurdish political factions— the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)—and has mounted ambushes and attacks in PUK areas. www.fas.org /irp/world/para/ansar.htm   (209 words)

CNN.com - U.S. officials: Al Qaeda in Kurd-controlled Iraq - August 22, 2002 The small area controlled by Ansar al Islam is in the mountainous north of the northern no-fly zone that has been patrolled by U.S. and allied warplanes since the end of the Gulf War. Monday, U.S. officials confirmed President Bush had shelved a plan to attack a primitive testing facility run by members of Ansar al Islam in the extreme north of Iraq, where the biological toxin ricin had been tested on barnyard animals and possibly on one human. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A handful of "second-tier" al Qaeda members have taken refuge in northern Iraq, in an area controlled by the militant Kurdish group, Ansar al Islam, U.S. officials said Wednesday. archives.cnn.com /2002/US/08/21/iraq.alqaeda   (386 words)

In the Spotlight: Ansar al-Islam Ansar declared a jihad against the secular rule of the PUK, accusing the group of straying from the true path of Islam. Ansar is also blamed for the suicide bomb attack that killed Australian journalist Paul Moran, the first journalist killed in the war on Iraq. Ansar had operated from the region of the Shinirwe Mountain, which overlooks the town of Halabja near the Iranian border. cdi.org /program/document.cfm?DocumentID=1453&from_page=../index.cfm   (1256 words)

US Imposes Sanctions against Iraqi Kurdish Group Ansar al-Islam Ansar al-Islam is a Kurdish guerrilla faction operating in the mountains of northern Iraq near the border with Iran, and is believed to be behind a series of attacks against mainstream Kurdish leaders. The sanctions against Ansar al-Islam are being imposed under terms of an executive order from President Bush issued soon after the Sptember 1l terrorist attacks. In his February 5 presentation to the U.N. Security Council, Secretary of State Colin Powell said the group has worked with Iraqi intelligence and cited Ansar al-Islam as an example of the Baghdad government's ties to terrorism. www.voanews.com /article.cfm?objectID=AA8CD3C8-77EC-41AC-BF5A70878B96B22A   (436 words)

Asia Times Though Iran is Shi'ite and Ansar is predominantly Sunni, Iran has always seen Islamist proxies in Kurdistan as a counterweight to the more formidable PUK and KDP factions, both of which, if left to their own devices, could stir up Iran's highly repressed Kurdish population. But, since the highly secular PUK is Ansar al-Islam’s sworn enemy, having lost many of its men fighting the group, they have their own agenda in the information they extract on behalf of the US. For example, an unnamed German intelligence sources cited by the Wall Street Journal recently stated that there is no evidence that either Ansar al-Islam or al-Zarqawi are linked to Saddam. www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EB15Ak01.html   (1330 words)

NBC: Ansar eyed in Iraq attacks - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com Ansar al Islam began as an Islamic Kurd group but shifted its role after the U.S. assault in Afghanistan. As a result, Ansar al-Sunnah has set up a "significant propaganda operation" to recruit those already in Iraq and those who might want to join them.  "We don’t think it’s working, but that is what they are trying to do," said the official. U.S. officials say every major suicide bombing in Iraq can be attributed to Ansar and Zarqawi himself says essentially the same thing, claiming in recently intercepted letter that he was responsible for some 25 attacks at the time of its writing.  www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4428430   (946 words)

Suicide-attack jackets bought by radical group - The Washington Times: World Ansar al-Islam was very active in the north before U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq, employing a number of fighters drawn from nearby Muslim countries by way of Iran. When a former Iraqi army officer approached an arms dealer last month asking for suicide bombers' jackets, he was told that Ansar al-Islam had bought up the entire supply, including three that already had been stripped of their explosives. The officer was advised to send a colleague north and make contact with Ansar al-Islam, which would allocate a fully operational suicide bomber's jacket to anyone who would use it effectively. www.washtimes.com /world/20031230-112846-6577r.htm   (932 words)

Ansar al-Islam Blamed for Violent Attacks in Iraq Among them is Ansar al-Islam, a shadowy group with roots in the northern Kurdish regions of Iraq. The U.S. State Department has designated Ansar al-Islam a "Foreign Terrorist Organization" and says it is one of the leading groups engaged in anti-coalition attacks in Iraq. There's debate as to whether or not Zarqawi was the head of Ansar al-Islam, [or whether] he's connected to Ansar al-Islam. www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2005/05-02.htm   (563 words)

BBC NEWS Middle East US targets Islamist group in Iraq Ansar al-Islam preaches a radical interpretation of Islam and holy war and controls about a dozen villages and a range of peaks between Kurdish-held territory and the Iranian border. On Friday, Mullah Krekar, alleged leader of Ansar al-Islam, was charged in Norway, where he has lived since 1991, with planning terror attacks. About 70 US missiles are reported to have struck the belt of hill country close to the Iranian border that is controlled by the Ansar al-Islam. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2875269.stm   (308 words)

groupProfile.asp?grpid=6311 Ansar al-Islam is estimated to have between 650 and 700 fighters, but its reach extends into Europe, where it may have been involved in the recent train bombings in Casablanca, and where plots to use chemical ricin have been foiled by authorities. Ansar al-Islam is an al-Qaeda affiliate first established in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq. Records reveal the Ansar al-Islam enclave in northern Iraq was set up only days before September 11, 2001, leading some to speculate that it was established to serve as a hiding place in the event of U.S. reprisals for attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. www.discoverthenetworks.org /groupProfile.asp?grpid=6311   (403 words)

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